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Re: GSS-APIv3 sketch

Love Hörnquist Åstrand <lha@apple.com> Wed, 11 November 2009 18:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: GSS-APIv3 sketch
From: Love Hörnquist Åstrand <lha@apple.com>
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11 nov 2009 kl. 10:42 skrev Nicolas Williams:

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:40:50AM -0800, Love Hörnquist Åstrand wrote:
>> 
>> I have so many comments that I don't know where to start.
>> 
>> First out: any work that doesn't include async is dead in the water.
> 
> Oh, I forgot to mention that.  It does include async.

If the api requires calling sane function serveral times with the same arguments, the API is broken.

>> Its not mentioned how this is gss3 objects relates to gss2 object.
> 
> They are distinct.  The compat shims take care of that.
> 
>> Well-defined SPI will force everything to reimplemnent GSS-API
>> semantics in all layer, this sucks and duplicates code.
> 
> No, see the compat shims.

That doesn't answer my question, making the SPI look like the API is the problem.

Love

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